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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in blended learning are providing the means for people all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC classes are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations are struggling with now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can participants guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a growing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Scholars want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desideratum for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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